Calling All Cars on the Vegas Strip

Calling All Cars on the Vegas Strip is the debut studio album by the American band Jucifer.[2][3] It was released in 1998 through the independent label Crack Rock Records and then in 2000 after have signed to Capricorn Records label.[4] The album contains a mixture of metal, punk, hardcore, doom, sludge, alternative elements and scratch disk sound effects between track to track. This style wasn't explored by many bands in the late 1990s,[1] and was part of their sound during the 2000s, until the release of Throned in Blood in 2010.

Calling All Cars on the Vegas Strip
Studio album by
Released1998
Recorded1995 - 1997
Genre
Length45:06
LabelCrack Rock (1998) Capricorn (2000)
Jucifer chronology
Calling All Cars on the Vegas Strip
(1998)
I Name You Destroyer
(2002)

Critical reception edit

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic     [1]

Steve Huey for AllMusic said that the album overall "draws on the grungy noise of early alternative metal...and the loud, trashy sometimes industrial-tinged scuzz rock that preceded it."[1] Craig Regala for Lollipop Magazine called the album an "interesting combination of sludgy and grungy riffs smut backed by real straight-up, small-kit drumming and a focus on rough-cut songs."[5]

Track listing edit

All tracks are written by Jucifer

No.TitleLength
1."Code Escovedo"3:23
2."Long Live the King"2:16
3."Superman"3:03
4."Malibu"3:40
5."To the Plate"1:44
6."44: Dying in White"3:29
7."Nickel to Roll"3:04
8."Glamourspuss"2:05
9."A More Luminous Skin"3:01
10."Hero Worship"2:16
11."Rain and Pink Chiffon"4:49
12."Model Year Blowout"4:14
13."The Movement of Swallows"5:29
14."Japanese and Lovely"2:33

Personnel edit

  • Amber Valentine – guitar, Vocals, organ, vibraphone
  • Edgar Livengood – drums, horns, violin, vocals

References edit

  1. ^ a b c d Huey, Steve. "Jucifer - Calling All Cars on the Vegas Strip". AllMusic.
  2. ^ Makin, Robert (20 January 2000). "Jucifer, 'Calling All Cars on the Vegas Strip'". Courier News. p. E10.
  3. ^ Fox, Darrin (March 2000). "Jucifer". Guitar Player. Vol. 34, no. 3. pp. 47–48.
  4. ^ Perez, Omar (6 February 2003). "Sugar and sludge". Orlando Weekly.
  5. ^ Regala, Craig (1 April 2000). "Jucifer - Calling all Cars on the Vegas Strip Review". Lollipop Magazine.